The Contemporary Buttercream Bible (41 page)
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Authors: Christina Ong Valeri Valeriano
To create this cake…
• 20 × 10cm (8 × 4in) round cake (bottom tier), 15
× 10cm (6 × 4in) round cake (top tier)
• 1.9–2.3kg (4lb 3oz–5lb 3oz) buttercream
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• Dowel rods
• Paste colours: violet (Sugarflair Grape Violet),
green (Sugarflair Gooseberry), yellow (Sugarflair
Melon)
• Breakfast cereal, we have used Fruit Loops here
• Small kitchen knife
• Piping bags
• Scissors
• Small petal nozzle (Wilton 104)
• Small leaf nozzle (Wilton 352)
• Cake stand or covered cake board
Crumb coat, dowel and stack the cakes (see
Buttercream Basics) and place on a stand or
covered board. Cover both tiers with 800–900g (1lb
12oz–2lb) of plain buttercream. Give the top tier a
smooth finish (see Covering Cakes in Buttercream
Basics) and pipe ruffles on the bottom tier using
800–900g (1lb 12oz–2lb) of buttercream tinted
yellow (see Up and Down Two-tone Ruffles in
Piping
Textures
and
Patterns).
Colour
the
remaining buttercream in the following quantities:
200–300g (7–101⁄2oz) of violet and 100–200g
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(31⁄2–7oz) of green. Apply the cereal loops by
following the tutorial and using the photograph as a
guide. To finish the cake, pipe a violet buttercream
flower with green leaves (see Sunflower and Leaves
in Piping Flowers) and give it a cereal loop centre.
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Suppliers
UK SUPPLIERS
Lindy’s Cakes Ltd.
Unit 2, Station Approach, Wendover,
Buckinghamshire, HP22 6BN
+44(0)1296 622 418
www.lindyscakes.co.uk
Online shop for cookie cutters and stencils
Edible Creators Ltd.
191 Station Road, Rainham, KENT ME8 7SQ
+44 (0)1634 235407 / 075813 95801
www.ediblecreatorsltd.com
Supplier of impression mats and texture sheets
Decobake Ltd.
Unit 1, Clane Business Park, Clane,
480
Co. Kildare, Ireland
+35 (045) 893 890
www.decobake.com
Big selection of cake decorating supplies
Cake Stuff Ltd.
Milton Industrial Estate
Lesmahagow
Scotland ML11 0JN
+44 (0)1555 890 111
www.cake-stuff.com
Supplier of cake decorating materials
The Cake Decorating Company
Unit 2b Triumph Road, Nottingham NG7 2GA
+44 (0)115 969 9800
www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk
Range of cake decorating materials and edible
printing
DinkyDoodle Designs
2b Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2GA
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+44 (0)115 969 9803
www.dinkydoodledesigns.co.uk
Supplier of airbrush machines and colours
Knightsbridge PME Ltd.
Riverwalk Business Park, Riverwalk Rd, Enfield
EN3 7QN
+44 (0)20 3234 0049
www.knightsbridgepme.co.uk
US SUPPLIERS
The Cake World
184 Broadway #15 (Route 1N) -
Saugus, MA 01906 – 781-558-5508
+1 781-558-5508
www.thecakeworld.net
Supplier of cake decorating materials
ABC Cake Decorating Supplies/Cake Art
2853 E Indian School Rd
Phoenix, AZ. 85016
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+1 602-224-9796
www.cakearts.com
Supplier of cake decorating materials and edible
printing
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Acknowledgments
All our ideas and passion for cake decorating would
not have been translated into these lovely pages if it weren’t for our publisher, F&W Media. So for this, we would like to thank each and every one of you:
Ame Verso, Jane Trollope, Emma Gardner, Victoria
Marks, James Brooks and the rest of the team. To
our amazing photographers, Sian Irvine and Nick
Hayes, thank you so much for being so patient and
making sure that each shot was perfect.
Two years ago, we were just selling cupcakes in
school fairs but Cake International show organizers
gave us the chance to be part of the real world of
cakes. They were the first who invested trust in us
and they have played a major role in allowing us to
showcase our talents to the world. To Clare Fisher,
Ben Fidler, David Bennett, Vicki Vinton, and the
rest of the team, thank you ever so much. To all the
judges we have met in different cake competitions,
you have been our best critics and you have pushed
us to improve our craft in so many ways.
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To our dearest friend and member of Team QoHCC,
Maureen Tungol, thank you much for always
helping us and only expecting cupcakes and a nice
dinner in return. To all our enthusiastic friends and followers all over the world, this space would not be enough to write all your names, but you know who
you are and we thank each and every one of you for
your continuous support.
Above all, we would like to offer our utmost
gratitude to our ever supportive families back in the Philippines. Thank you for being the best fan group
ever, we hope that we have made you proud. We
dedicate this book to all of you.
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About the Authors
Valeri Valeriano and Christina Ong left the
Philippines in 2008 to work in the UK in the
medical field. After the ‘sweet accident’ of learning 486
how to make cupcake bouquets in 2011, they
launched their business Queen of Hearts Couture
Cakes and have since won several top awards in
various prestigious cake competitions.
Now renowned globally for their edible works of art,
using nothing else but buttercream as their
decorating medium, Valeri and Christina have been
featured in numerous well-known magazines and
on local and international news. They have
appeared on television, and showcased their
masterpieces and demonstrated their craft in major
cake shows in the UK and abroad. They hold
masterclasses in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US
and have also held a couple of masterclasses at the
famous Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Valeri and Christina take immense pride in their
mastery of buttercream art and this makes Queen of
Hearts Couture Cakes exclusive. They have
modernized what is commonly known as the
age-old art of buttercream, and this is reflected in
their creations. Their cake designs are elegant,
original and eminently contemporary.
Find
out
more
at
www.queenofheartscouturecakes.com
and
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www.facebook.com/
QueenofHeartsCupcakesAndMore
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A DAVID & CHARLES BOOK
© F&W Media International, Ltd 2014
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Ong 2014
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